OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The 19 Best Actors-Turned-Directors
Kenji Fujishima @ Movie Mezzanine
Interviews
Brad Bird – Tomorrowland
Britt Robertson – Tomorrowland
Damon Lindelof – Tomorrowland
” I Don’t Know If I Believe in Evil”: Director Amy Berg on ‘Every Secret Thing’ and the Film Hollywood Wouldn’t Touch
- Excerpt: It’s a very good film, perhaps because it’s so well written (by Nicole Holofcener, adapting Laura Lippman’s novel), perhaps because it’s so sensitively acted (the ace cast includes Elizabeth Banks, Diane Lane, and Dakota Fanning). But Berg is also an adroit storyteller, and if the form is new, she’s still exploring the primary preoccupation of her films thus far: the nature of evil.
Raffey Cassidy – Tomorrowland
Romain Duris – The New Girlfriend
Sheila Vand – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 15-17, 2015
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Television
Welcome to Sweden: Season 1
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: A likable group of characters can go a long way toward making a series successful.
Essays
The ACLU’s Campaign for Gender Equality in Hollywood Is Bold — But Will It Work?
- Excerpt: What’s so striking about the ACLU’s action is how it’s being framed: not as an entertainment issue, but as a social and legal one. It’s not a matter of film fans wringing the hands, but a question of breaking the law.
From Cannes to Lifetime: A ‘Grace of Monaco’ Disaster Timeline
- Excerpt: How did such a prestige project end up on a punchline network? Let’s roll the tape.
How ‘Mad Men’ Appropriated the Ethos — and an Icon — of ’70s Cinema
- Excerpt: With its antihero characters, deliberate pacing, bizarre narrative detours (and, occasionally, dead ends), and general riskiness, Mad Men bucked the conventions of popular television in much the way that the films of the ‘70s whipped back against the dull, calculated safety of the studio boondoggles of the ‘60s.
How ‘Matlock’ Made Me an Optimist
- Excerpt: I think what stuck with me after all those years of watching a formulaic courtroom mystery meant for viewers two generations (minimum) older than me was its simplicity. There’s something unfathomably clean and efficient about shows like this, where someone’s life is entirely upended by a false accusation, yet within an hour of screen time, they are saved and justice is done and everything turns out fine.
How David Letterman Became Johnny Carson, and Everyone Else Became David Letterman
- Excerpt: It’s important to understand two things about the formation of Letterman’s style and persona: that it was a product of its time, and that it was a product of creative restrictions.
In the ‘Pitch Perfect 2′ vs. ‘Mad Max’ Box Office Battle, Everybody Won
- Excerpt: In the wake of a weekend like this one, in which the astonishing success of Pitch Perfect 2 over second-place finisher Mad Max: Fury Road is being classified by industry rags and film bloggers alike as some kind of girl-power rebuke to testosterone-fueled action, such simplistic equivalency isn’t just ignorant, it’s counterproductive.
Meet the Reviled Movie Blogger Who Inspired Last Week’s ‘Amy Schumer’
- Excerpt: Wells’ sneering letter-grade objectifications (“she’s not grade-A or even B-plus material, certainly by my standards as well as those of any moderately attractive, fair-minded youngish heterosexual dude”) are the stuff of the Nick DiPaolo or Paul Giamatti characters, cast from the beginning as the villains of the piece, whose shout-y misogyny is revealed, over the course of the half-hour, to mask their own shallowness and insecurities.
Reviews of Short Films
Cinzas e Brasas
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Dinner for Few
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Greek Animated Short Film Review
El Amor no es Ciego
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Lei da Gravidade
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
The Mass of Men
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: British Short Film Review
Moiré
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Namnala
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Programme Libre
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: French Short Film Review
Other Articles
Ar(t)menians
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Documentary Feature Review about Armenia and the genocide perpetrated in early 20th Century.
Great Dancing in the Movies
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A lively podcast discussion about great dancing on film.
The Morning After: May 18, 2015
- Excerpt: Short review of “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Pára-me de Repente o Pensamento
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Documentary Feature Review
Uma Rapariga da sua Idade
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Feature Film Review
